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  • meteorologist and physicist who developed the cloud chamber for visualizing ... Wilson was born in the parish of Glencorse, Midlothian, near Edinburgh ...
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  • The Dukedom of Wellington, derived from Wellington in Somerset, England ... Wellington is considered to have been one of the greatest British ...
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  • In Western tonal music a key is the central aural reference point ... Although the key of a piece may be named in the title (e.g. Symphony ...
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  • accuracy and neutrality of the observer is one of the points of ... arising from the biological nature of the observer. Carter also warned that ...
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  • of pleasure, joy, and satisfaction to the observer, through sensory manifestations ... it largely depends on the attitude of the observer. Baumgarten and G. E. ...
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  • them to be lively and entertaining for the mass market. ... He rescued the financially desperate The Observer and The Times in ...
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  • was a German fighter pilot known as "The Red Baron." He was the ... Von Richthofen was the most famous member of the Lutskreitkräfte ...
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  • Panpsychism is the view that all of the fundamental entities in the ... The view has appeared numerous times in the history of philosophical ...
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  • fame as an Australian explorer. He was the leader of the ill-fated Burke ... Burke was born in St. Clerah's, County Galway, Ireland, in 1821 ...
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  • astronomical sextants for measuring the apparent distances between stars. ... telescope dome can be rotated, allowing the observer to point the instrument ...
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  • of distance between the sitter and the observer. The armrest of the chair ... posture. Only her gaze is fixed on the observer and seems to welcome him ...
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  • The Council of Europe is the oldest international organization working ... There has been criticism concerning the observer status of Japan and ...
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  • precise measurements and explanations of the positions and movements of ... in the instruments and errors by the observer or the measuring instruments ...
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  • and the center of the ecliptic (i.e., the observer on Earth): 3144 : 327+2/3 ; ... circles the center of the Earth, but the observer is at the surface - Moon ...
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  • In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object that has been ... experimentation, and monitoring of the Earth's environment and ...
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  • A ceiling fan is a device suspended from the ceiling of a room, with ... * Height of the fan relative to the observer. The closer the fan is ...
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  • noted for his photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes ... Atget was born in the French city of Bordeaux. He was orphaned at ...
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  • and relationships between different parts of the data. Consequently, charts ... in a pie chart or horizontal bar chart. On the other hand, data that indicate ...
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  • organs are found in a variety of organisms. The simplest eyes do nothing but ... a grid (similar to a bar code). Next, the observer is placed at a distance ...
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  • traditional Chinese: 觀音) is known as the bodhisattva of infinite compassion ... and eyes, representing her role as the observer and protector of the needy ...
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  • DBE, (May 18, 1919 – February 21, 1991), the English assoluta (prima ballerina ... Fonteyn was knighted (made a dame) in 1954 at the age of 35. Through ...
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  • The European Parliament (Europarl or EP) is the directly elected parliamentary ... by universal suffrage since 1979. Although the European Parliament has legislative ...
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  • The Ramakrishna Mission ( রামকৃষ্ণ মিশন May 1, 1897, who in 1893, when he attended the Parliament of the Worlds Religion ...
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  • The Greek philosopher Heraclitus (Greek Ἡράκλειτος Herakleitos ... depending on the underlying premises of the observer. There is indeed ...
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  • theory, to sociology and anthropology. The most notable aspects of Bourdieu ... an awareness of that distortion and of the observer as a competent social ...
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  • The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, [http://www.aseansec.org/64 ... AH-see-ahn in English (the official language of the bloc) ...
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  • meaningless, but simply nonexistent. The observer and the observed are one ... world is but an illusion in the mind of the observer. When the solipsist understands ...
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  • The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a global ... Formed in October 1948, the IUCN's headquarters is located in ...
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  • (or fundamental) particles that are the building blocks of matter ... " Everyday matter is composed of the first generation of fermions: ...
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  • developed was incomplete at best, regarding the external (physical) aspects ... of a behavior in terms familiar to the observer. Behavior, according to ...
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  • sea captain, author and scientific observer. He was the first Englishman ... Dampier's life belongs to the great age of so-called "Discovery ...
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  • The Rev. Dr William Stukeley FRS, FRCP, FSA (November 7, 1687 – ... Trained in the medical profession and turning later in life to the ...
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  • sensed by the cochlea in the ear. If the observer is blindfolded it is difficult ... However, this information only allows the observer to create a "ranking ...
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  • These first three steps do not constitute asteroid discovery: the ... orbit. If so, the object gets a number. The observer of the first apparition ...
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  • , Japanese novelist and lady-in-waiting in the imperial court at the height ... The name “Lady Murasaki” refers both to the author of The Tale ...
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  • 21, 1919 – April 4, 2000) was a leading educator of the deaf. Stokoe served as chairman of the English department at Gallaudet University ...
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  • The Elizabeth Tower, formerly known as the Clock Tower, is the world ... were to echo the sound back to the observer on the ground, the bell ...
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  • (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was the American author who won the ... the irrepressible personality of the observer shines through and, taken ...
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  • In the philosophy of perception, critical realism is the theory that ... Critical realism refers to several schools of thought. These include ...
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  • The Peace Cup is a football (soccer) tournament held every two years ... * Hills, David. "Viagra Retailer Pele." The Observer, May ...
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  • architectural significance: A monument to the ingenuity of the British military ... Cannons were first mounted on Brimstone Hill in 1690, when the British ...
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  • Transcendental idealism is the name given by eighteenth century German ... things to the extent they appear to the observer through the forms of intuition ...
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  • as an avant-garde writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, dirty jokes, bawdy ... Although the place (or date) of his birth is not reliably documented ...
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  • and university administrator, was one of the antirationalist Oxford thinkers ... and other topics for The Listener, The Observer , the New Statesman, the ...
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  • printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. The content may be general or ... the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the Observer, and the Daily Mail. ...
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  • Matale District of Sri Lanka dating to the fifth century B.C.E. Although ... Located on a prominent hill standing 370 m above the plane surrounding ...
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  • (solid, liquid, or gas) or in some cases in the absence of a material medium ... of a supersonic object propagating past the observer. The leading edge of the ...
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  • The Colossus of Rhodes was a giant statue of the Greek god Helios ... Rhodes is an island situated in the eastern Aegean Sea. It lies approximately ...
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  • Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher. During the first century B.C.E. he wrote ... influence on Virgil and later Roman poets. The early Christians frowned on ...
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  • singer, ranked by Billboard magazine as the No. 1 country artist of all ... Arnold was instrumental in the postwar movement of country music from ...
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